A popular song from 1923.
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There is a story told
How in days of old
There lived a chimney sweep
When the world was fast asleep
To his chimney he would creep
There high up in the air, of a Princess fair
He’d dream the night away
Cloth’d in beams from afar
He’d softly plead to each tiny star
Chorus
Twinkle, twinkle, little star above me
Will my Princess ever come to love me?
Tell me if you know
Let your lovebeams search until they find her
Send your love dreams gently to remind her
That I love her so
Along a path of star dust lead her to my side
And on a silver cloud into the night we’ll ride
To a Fairyland of love and laughter
Happy there we’ll live forever after
Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, little star
- While others laughed in scorn
At this lad forlorn
His heart did not despair
Ev’ry night would find him there
Singing soft his little pray’r
Then on a magic night, all arrayed in white
A tiny Princess came and she led him away
To Fairy land where they dwell today
Sung here by Fred Feild: